Birth Trauma: Stress Afflicts Moms

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"Amid the debate over how to effectively manage maternal mental-health disorders, a new type of postpartum illness is gaining attention: post-traumatic-stress disorder due to childbirth.

PTSD is most commonly associated with combat veterans and victims of violent crime, but medical experts say it also can be brought on by a very painful or complicated labor and delivery in which a woman believes she or her baby might die. Symptoms can include anxiety, flashbacks and a numbness to daily life. Even as medical advances have resulted in many more lives saved during high-risk births, extreme medical interventions can leave a mother severely stressed -- especially if she feels powerless or mistreated by health providers."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121789883018612223.html?mod=dist_smartbrief

Not sure how I feel about this one, but what I do know is this is a interesting counter to those asinine "Abortion mental trauma" memes spread by forced birthers. My personal choice would be an early abortion over than a fourth degree tear and a stressed, hypoxic, permanently brain damaged fetus. Not that that difficult births can always be predicted of course. My choice isn't anyone's else's and vice versa.

I can also imagine more than one situation with a high risk pregnancy that a forced birth mentality would provide the situation for women to "feel powerless or mistreated by health providers" Or the so-called "Pro-life" assholes, who are anti-woman, as George Carlin so brilliantly put it.